10.07.2014
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| A view towards the begging of Via dei Fori Imperiali |
If this research is exploring the nature of never-ending overlay of Rome
as a city, it is completely logical to search for informality in its historical
aggregation. The more I am digging, however, the harder is to find anything but
informality in the urban development of Rome. This is forcing me to establish more
clearly what is, in fact, formal.
The challenge is to make a distinction between interventions which aim
to formalize the urban order even though the way they are executed appears as an
informal intervention. Mussolini’s insertion of Via dei Fori Imperiali which
establishes a straight corridor between the Colosseum and Piazza Venezia (1924
– 1932) is clearly an attempt to formalize the city. This intervention was, on
the other hand, done through imposition of a street on top of a series of
Imperial Forums, splitting them in half and creating a strange set of leftovers
in the most ad-hoc or informal fashion.
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